Several holes have been filled in Taylorsville, thanks to the Taylorsville City Commission. Those holes — or potholes, rather — were sizable, drew plenty of complaints and were located behind a used car lot and Dairy Queen just off of Taylorsville Road.
The City Commission brought up the issue of the potholes, as well as some located in the parking lot of the former IGA, at its July meeting and voted to send letters to the property owners asking for the holes to be filled and the roadways, which are open to public traffic, to be fixed.

Several criminal cases The Spencer Magnet has been following were on the Spencer Circuit Court docket last Thursday. Here are the updates in those cases:
•Karen Cook, 39, of the 100 block of West Main Street in Taylorsville, is facing meth-related charges and appeared in court last Thursday for a hearing.
Cook was taken into custody, at least temporarily, because the person who put up her surety bond, withdrew it and a warrant was issued for her arrest.

The expansion of Spencer County’s Octoberfest from a two-day event to one running from Oct. 1-5 began with the addition of one event: a 5K.
“We chose to do a 5K and we wanted to give it a purpose — not just Octoberfest, but a purpose,” said Patsy Lewis, Octoberfest committee member.
After seeing Spencer Countian Dawson Moore’s battle with cancer and becoming familiar with the Thumbs Up for Lane Goodwin Childhood Cancer Foundation, deciding on that purpose was easy.

Three out of the county’s 10 taxing entities are raising at least a portion of their tax rates, while the remaining seven voted to leave their rates the same.
As reported earlier, the Spencer County School Board voted to raise both its real and personal property taxes from 60 cents per $100 of assessed value to 61.5 cents per $100 of assessed value. This includes .3 cents per $100 of assessed value as an exoneration fee to make up for delinquent taxes in prior years.

Melody Moore will tell you that before her 11-year-old son Dawson fought and succumbed to a rare form of brain cancer, she and her husband, Todd, were not aware of the thousands of children diagnosed with some form of childhood cancer annually.